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Six Myanmar migrants were killed and 44 others were injured when a bus taking them from Tak to Chachoengsao lost control and crashed down a roadside hill on Monday night. Pol Capt Kiarttisak Boonplong, deputy inspector of Mae Thor police station, said 28 of the injured workers were in severe condition
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Fourteen Myanmar migrant workers and a Thai van driver narrowly escaped death when their vehicle caught fire after a tyre burst and ran out of the road into a ditch on Monday morning (Apr 9). The incident happened at 6.00am in Wang Chao district of Tak province as a chartered public
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Tak provincial police yesterday (Mar 14) arrested two wildlife traders after finding 24 elephant tusks and 16 elephant tails in their pickup truck. The two suspects Saitarn Maliwan, 45, the driver, and his passenger Bunoeng Uttawat, 54, a mahout, were ordered to stop for search after their vehicle passed Huay Ya-u
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A French man and a Thai woman who are suspected of murdering an Italian man in Phichit province have been arrested by immigration police in Tak province. The dismembered charred remains of the 61 year old Italian man were discovered in bushes near a reservoir in Bung Na Rang district of
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A Tak family with two young children escaped injury on Thursday night when a bullet pierced the tin roof of their home in Phob Phra district. Khamsuk Sri-amnuaychok, 53, told police they heard a single gunshot, realised a round had come through the roof, and ran for cover. Full story: The Nation By
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Four people died and two others injured after the pickup truck they were travelling in crashed into a roadside tree in Tha Song Yang district of Tak province late Tuesday night. Mae Moei station police said the incident happened near Kilometre 112 on Highway 105. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS
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TAK - Myanmar police handed over fugitive and former police doctor Supat Laohawattana to Thai authorities on Thursday to face his death sentence for killing a Myanmar worker in Phetchaburi province 13 years ago. Deputy national police chief Thammasak Wicharaya arrived from Bangkok at the border crossing in Ban Rim Moei
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TAK: A worker at a refugee camp was trampled to death as she tried to flee a herd of wild elephants apparently spooked by the sound of her motorcycle in Mae Ramat district on Friday afternoon. Wansa Khiri-archadai, 26, and her husband Boontham Chokthammakarn, 31, were on the way to visit
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